{"id":9718,"date":"2011-04-24T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T08:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9718"},"modified":"2011-04-24T09:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T08:02:05","slug":"labour-the-resistance-to-the-commodification-of-human-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/24\/labour-the-resistance-to-the-commodification-of-human-beings\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour: the resistance to the commodification of human beings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Glasman in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/politics\/2011\/apr\/24\/blue-labour-maurice-glasman\">the Observer argues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Labour politics is rooted in the democratic resistance to the commodification of human beings.<\/p>\n<p>The organised workers who resisted their dispossession and exploitation called their party Labour to remind us of that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He is right.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we should be fighting. And what we've forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>But Blue Labour needs an economic core as well.<\/p>\n<p>That's when it really becomes credible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maurice Glasman in the the Observer argues: Labour politics is rooted in the democratic resistance to the commodification of human beings. The organised workers who<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/04\/24\/labour-the-resistance-to-the-commodification-of-human-beings\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics","category-labour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}